Opinion Journal: Mike Huckabee for President?

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... the honorable thing to do at this point ... you stay in my tenure here at Fox ... as much as I love doing the show ... I cannot bring myself to rule out another presidential run ... the Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has announced that he's quitting Fox News ... and weighing a presidential bid ... Editorial page editor Paul GBO joins me to talk about this development is that ... what's the political calculation of the Huckabee did ... hmm well I he do that before trying into thousandeight two sometimes a second time can be better met Ronnie showed that ... John McCain showed that ... up ... and others ... so yes some experience ... he has enormous of popularity among the called troll ranked the scope of service or Conservancy abortion pro marriage movement ... and that these ministers ... and voters in Iowa ... and I was the first caucus state so ... he won the last time ... and that can be a catapults to doing that up ... to doing well ... in he's a great retail competition I mean really great ... there is many people who is gifted ... with a common touch as he sees witty to that phrase maker to these Catskills okay what's the slide that shows the states that he won back in two thousand and eight Iowa of course ... is among them ... aam pot ... this is a two thousand and eight how a person how ... to social conservatives matter is much debate how much have today ... as they did back then well in terms of the broader electorate traps know but in terms of the Republican nominee like to think they're very significant and may remain so ... when the moral aspect it's a significant bloc of votes ... in the ... recent to nominations they've done it and the parcel their boats out behind several candidates no one in particular what Huckabee would try to do would be the coolest that go to the news that is his base ... from which to leap ... into other ... portions of the Republican electorate that ... the that the Chamber of Commerce types that can of the financial security can serve as the probably had in two thousand and I think you have a gap ... um in the selection would be any make the joke he showed he couldn't into thousandeight because EMP lousy ... economic ... fiscal record in Arkansas called for growth for example really one after him ... in a major way exposing ... taxing and spending worker ... I he is the use of big government conservative he was in Arkansas ... and am not two thousandeight he didn't Iran ... really how so ... as a as a pro business conservative he ran all the offices of populists we distribution this kind of Republican ... he attacked Wall Street the back of some of the themes that Obama ... the head ... on and I have that didn't sit well ... with a lot of Republican economic conservatives and yet that challenges this time I think well let's let's put up the latest polling of this doesn't mean very Hotchkis were so far with it the name yet not saying look the same way for five that might not be varies eighty eight percent ... does not nothing but that means that ... these are people Republicans know and have decent feeling while it gets into the race and two others get out ... why is puts a lot of the more pressure on people like Mike pence the governor of Indiana it was the favorite of many cool features he's gonna get a nice gotta probably ... accelerate this ... process ... because it doesn't want people to have peeled off and it's much he might be able to win supporters he might be of a wimpy loss of our we've gone up competes in the fundraisers which Santorum I think who ... ran in two thousand twelve would be very hard pressed ... to get back in because he be competing for the same voters in Iowa ... and elsewhere that Huckabee and I think of Cadiz just a better political tale company be fascinating to watch thanks Paul ...